Example how to set a due date

[030]

I tried to set a Duedate as field:

jira.Issue{
  Fields: &jira.IssueFields{ 
    Duedate: "incorrect format",
  },
}

but I do not seem to get the right format.

[github-actions]

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[benjivesterby]

@030 Try one of these format strings in time.Format when setting that field

https://github.com/nortonlifelock/jira/blob/1687038936ca93cf4a856970d669484c58bd0b7c/const.go#L44

[030]

@benjivesterby I tried that, but it does not work. Perhaps the example could be extended with a working example?

[benjivesterby]

@030 I'll see what I can do. It's been a bit since I've had a production JIRA to play with, but I'll try and setup something against my own instance and get back to you. Theoretically though it should only be a formatting issue, but since Due Date is a default field for JIRA I believe you can also just assign a time.Time formatted using the format string 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999-0700 and it should work when pushing the issue. Can you try creating a new issue and setting the Due Date with this code? This should create a ticket that is due in 24 hours.

jira.Issue{
  Fields: &jira.IssueFields{ 
    Duedate: time.Now().Add(time.Hour*24).Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05.999-0700"),
  },
}

Fair warning though, I did not try this code.

[andygrunwald]

@030 Hey Ben, did this solve your problem? If yes, it would be a good idea to add this to the example directory.

[rcjames]

When creating the issue the Duedate field seems to need to be of the jira.Date type. I think I've got a working example of this now, but the formatting is a little strange.

dateFormat := "Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:04:05 GMT"
startDate := "Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:00:00 GMT"

d, _ := time.Parse(dateFormat, startDate)
dateString := "\"" + d.Format("2006-01-02") + "\""

var dueDate jira.Date
_ = dueDate.UnmarshalJSON([]byte(dateString))

https://go.dev/play/p/bq_2AVmlCmC

I'm not quite sure why the date string needs to contain escaped quotes though. Maybe a copy and paste from the MarshalJSON function? Definitely looks like a bug 🤷

go-jira/issue.go

Line 385 in 1e16435

ti, err := time.Parse("\"2006-01-02\"", string(b))

[andygrunwald]

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